How Bitdefender Box 2 Can Secure Your Home Network from Hackers | Wired Brand Lab

I'm Samy Kamkar.

I'm a security researcher.

My friend Mick is a deejay and entrepreneur

whose devices allow him to stay connected

to his family and his son.

Mick has allowed me to invade his home network

and see what kind of security vulnerabilities

and privacy issues exist.

Cyber criminals are constantly trying

to break into devices of personal home networks,

and they're trying to do this so that

they can steal information.

One of the least suspicious culprits

of a vulnerable network are actually baby monitors.

One of the things that I see you're doing here a lot

is looking at your baby monitor app.

There are services like Shodan, which is a legal service,

where people can actually look

for internet connected devices.

They'll then use default credentials

or a brute force attack to break into that baby monitor.

Many of these apps do not properly encrypt

when using SSL to communicate with their cloud system.

Essentially, if the app itself doesn't validate

that the cloud system is using the correct certificate,

that means a malicious attacker can

intercept the communication and then access

the user name, password, watch the video stream,

or do worse, potentially pivot from the baby monitor

onto any other device on your network.

In 2013, Target actually suffered a massive breach

where attackers were able to break into their network

and download 40 million credit card numbers.

I was one of them.

Oh, that's crazy.

They were able to get in through an

internet connected HVAC system.

Cyber criminals are also using online messaging systems

to send chat requests to you,

and often what they'll do is they'll send

something like a technical document

that's actually malicious software.

So if you run that, they then have full access to your

microphone and camera on your smart TV.

You really want an additional home security device

that is monitoring all network traffic.

A good example of that is the Bitdefender BOX 2.

Okay.

So for one, it'll prevent brute force attacks.

It also has webcam protection, so that the webcam

and microphone aren't engaged when they shouldn't be,

and for someone like you, with a family,

it has parental controls, so you can monitor

what activity is going on, you know,

with your child, for example.

Soon they'll be adding additional features

to prevent cyber-bullying.

The way I feel when I see somebody like

attacking my home through a baby monitor

just sets off emotions on all sorts of levels,

so I do thank you for showing me that's preventable.

First of all that it's going on,

which is super scary, but it's also preventable

with the right device.

It all comes down to one simple rule.

Don't leave yourself vulnerable.

Appreciate it, man.

Yeah, thank you.